SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                                  SCHEDULE 13D

                   Under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934*
                               (Amendment No. 2)*

                                 InterCept, Inc.
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                                (Name of Issuer)

                           Common Stock, no par value
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                         (Title of Class of Securities)

                                    45845L107
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                      (CUSIP Number of Class of Securities)

                                 Daniel S. Loeb
                      Third Point Management Company L.L.C.
                         360 Madison Avenue, 24th Floor
                               New York, NY 10017
                                 (212) 224-7400
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                  (Name, Address and Telephone Number of Person
                Authorized to Receive Notices and Communications)

                                   Copies to:
                            Daniel Schloendorn, Esq.
                          Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
                               787 Seventh Avenue
                             New York, NY 10019-6099
                                 (212) 728-8000

                                September 9, 2004
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                          (Date of Event which Requires
                            Filing of this Schedule)

If the filing person has previously filed a statement on Schedule 13G to report
the acquisition which is the subject of this Schedule 13D, and is filing this
schedule because of ss.ss. 240.13d-1(e), 240.13d-1(f) or 240.13d-1(g), check the
following box: [ ]

NOTE: Schedules filed in paper format shall include a signed original and five
copies of the schedule, including all exhibits. See Rule 240.13d-7 for other
parties to whom copies are to be sent.

* The remainder of this cover page shall be filled out for a reporting person's
initial filing on this form with respect to the subject class of securities, and
for any subsequent amendment containing information which would alter
disclosures provided in a prior cover page.

The information required on the remainder of this cover page shall not be deemed
to be "filed" for the purpose of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 ("Act") or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section of the Act
but shall be subject to all other provisions of the Act (however, see the
Notes).




                                  SCHEDULE 13D

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CUSIP No. 45845L107                                            Page 2 of 8 Pages
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    1       NAME OF REPORTING PERSON
            I.R.S. IDENTIFICATION NOS. OF ABOVE PERSONS (ENTITIES ONLY)

            Daniel S. Loeb
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    2       CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX IF A MEMBER OF A GROUP             (a) [ ]
                                                                         (b) [X]

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    3       SEC USE ONLY

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    4       SOURCE OF FUNDS*

            AF
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    5       CHECK BOX IF DISCLOSURE OF LEGAL PROCEEDING IS REQUIRED PURSUANT
            TO ITEMS 2(d) or 2(e)                                            [ ]

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    6       CITIZENSHIP OR PLACE OF ORGANIZATION

            United States
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                         7      SOLE VOTING POWER

                                0
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NUMBER OF                8      SHARED VOTING POWER
SHARES
BENEFICIALLY                    0
OWNED BY              --------- ------------------------------------------------
EACH                     9      SOLE DISPOSITIVE POWER
REPORTING
PERSON WITH                     0
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                         10     SHARED DISPOSITIVE POWER

                                0
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    11      AGGREGATE AMOUNT BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH PERSON

            0
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    12      CHECK BOX IF THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT IN ROW (11) EXCLUDES
            CERTAIN SHARES*                                                  [ ]

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    13      PERCENT OF CLASS REPRESENTED BY AMOUNT IN ROW (11)

            0%
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    14      TYPE OF REPORTING PERSON*

            IN
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                                  SCHEDULE 13D

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CUSIP No. 45845L107                                            Page 3 of 8 Pages
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    1       NAME OF REPORTING PERSON
            I.R.S. IDENTIFICATION NOS. OF ABOVE PERSONS (ENTITIES ONLY)

            Third Point Management Company L.L.C.               I.D. #13-3922602
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    2       CHECK THE APPROPRIATE BOX IF A MEMBER OF A GROUP             (a) [ ]
                                                                         (b) [X]

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    3       SEC USE ONLY

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    4       SOURCE OF FUNDS*

            AF
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    5       CHECK BOX IF DISCLOSURE OF LEGAL PROCEEDING IS REQUIRED PURSUANT
            TO ITEMS 2(d) or 2(e)                                            [ ]

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    6       CITIZENSHIP OR PLACE OF ORGANIZATION

            Delaware
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                         7      SOLE VOTING POWER

                                0
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NUMBER OF                8      SHARED VOTING POWER
SHARES
BENEFICIALLY                    0
OWNED BY              --------- ------------------------------------------------
EACH                     9      SOLE DISPOSITIVE POWER
REPORTING
PERSON WITH                     0
                      --------- ------------------------------------------------
                         10     SHARED DISPOSITIVE POWER

                                0
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    11      AGGREGATE AMOUNT BENEFICIALLY OWNED BY EACH PERSON

            0
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    12      CHECK BOX IF THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT IN ROW (11) EXCLUDES
            CERTAIN SHARES*                                                  [ ]

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    13      PERCENT OF CLASS REPRESENTED BY AMOUNT IN ROW (11)

            0%
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    14      TYPE OF REPORTING PERSON*

            OO
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     This Amendment No. 2 to Schedule 13D (this "Amendment No. 2") is being
filed on behalf of Third Point Management Company L.L.C., a Delaware limited
liability company (the "Management Company"), and Daniel S. Loeb, an individual
("Mr. Loeb" and, together with the Management Company, the "Reporting Persons").
This Amendment No. 2 relates to the common stock, no par value, of InterCept,
Inc., a Georgia corporation (the "Company"), and further amends the Schedule 13D
filed by the Reporting Persons with respect to the Company on May 27, 2004
(together with amendments thereto prior to this Amendment No. 2, the "Schedule
13D"). Unless the context otherwise requires, references herein to the "Common
Stock" are to such common stock of the Company. This Amendment No. 2 is being
filed to report a change in beneficial ownership of in excess of 1% of the total
outstanding Common Stock and a decrease below 5% of the beneficial ownership of
such Common Stock by the Reporting Persons. The Management Company is the
investment manager or adviser to a variety of hedge funds and managed accounts
(such funds and accounts, collectively, the "Funds"). The Funds previously had
direct ownership of the Common Stock to which this Amendment No. 2 relates, and
the Reporting Persons may be deemed to have had beneficial ownership over such
Common Stock by virtue of the authority granted to them by the Funds to vote and
to dispose of the securities held by the Funds, including the Common Stock.
Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the meaning ascribed thereto
in the Schedule 13D.

Item 3. Source and Amount of Funds or Other Consideration.

Item 3 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and restated as follows:

     The Funds effect purchases of securities primarily through margin accounts
maintained for them with Bear, Stearns Securities Corp. and Goldman, Sachs & Co.
(the "Primary Brokers") which may extend margin credit to the Funds as and when
required to open or carry positions in the margin accounts, subject to
applicable Federal margin regulations, stock exchange rules and the firm's
credit policies. In such instances, the positions held in the margin accounts
are pledged as collateral security for the repayment of debit balances in the
accounts.


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Item 4. Purpose of Transaction.

Item 4 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and restated as follows:

     The purpose of the acquisition of shares of the Common Stock by the Funds
was for investment. Sale of the Shares by the Funds reported in this Amendment
No. 2 was for the purpose of liquidating the Funds' positions in the Shares.

     The Reporting Persons are engaged in the investment business. In pursuing
this business, the Reporting Persons analyze the operations, capital structure
and markets of companies, including the Company, on a continuous basis through
analysis of documentation and discussions with knowledgeable industry and market
observers and with representatives of such companies (often at the invitation of
management). From time to time, one or more of the Reporting Persons may hold
discussions with third parties or with management of such companies in which the
Reporting Person may suggest or take a position with respect to potential
changes in the operations, management or capital structure of such companies as
a means of enhancing shareholder value. Such suggestions or positions may relate
to one or more of the transactions specified in clauses (a) through (j) of Item
4 of Schedule 13D of the Exchange Act, including, without limitation, such
matters as disposing of or selling all or a portion of the company or acquiring
another company or business, changing operating or marketing strategies,
adopting or not adopting certain types of anti-takeover measures and
restructuring the company's capitalization or dividend policy.

     Except as set forth above, the Reporting Persons do not have any present
plans or proposals that relate to or would result in any of the actions required
to be described in Item 4 of Schedule 13D. Each of the Reporting Persons may, at
any time, review or reconsider its position with respect to the Company and
formulate plans or proposals with respect to any of such matters, but has no
present intention of doing so.


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Item 5. Interest in Securities of the Issuer.

Item 5 of the Schedule 13D is hereby amended and restated as follows:

     (a) As of the date of this Amendment No. 2, the Management Company
beneficially owns 0 shares of Common Stock. If the Management Company owned
shares, it would share voting and dispositive power over such holdings with Mr.
Loeb and with the Funds. As of September 10, 2004, the Shares represented 0% of
the total 20,683,874 shares of Common Stock outstanding at September 7, 2004 as
reported in the Company's quarterly report on Form 10-Q/A for the quarterly
period ended June 30, 2004. None of the individual Funds owns a number of shares
of Common Stock equal to or greater than 5% of such total Common Stock
outstanding.

     (b) If the Management Company owned shares, the Management Company and Mr.
Loeb would share voting and dispositive power over the Common Stock held
directly by the Funds.

     (c) Schedule A hereto sets forth certain information with respect to
transactions by the Funds, at the direction of the Reporting Persons, in the
shares of Common Stock since June 24, 2004, the date of the most recent filing
on Schedule 13D.

     All of the transactions set forth on Schedule A, except as may be otherwise
noted therein, were effected in open market purchases on NASDAQ through the
Primary Brokers.

     Except as set forth above, since September 10, 2004, there were no
transactions in the Common Stock effected by the Reporting Persons, nor, to the
best of their knowledge, any of their directors, executive officers, general
partners or members.

     (d) Other than the Funds which previously held Shares directly, and except
as set forth in this Item 5, no person is known to have the right to receive or
the power to direct the receipt of dividends from, or the proceeds from the sale
of, the Shares.

     (e) The Reporting Persons ceased being the beneficial owners of more than
five percent of the Company on September 9, 2004.


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                                   Schedule A
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                   (Transactions by the Funds in Common Stock
            during the sixty days prior to the date requiring filing)


  Date        Shares Purchased     Shares Sold     Price Per Share
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07/30/04            BUY              35,850            $16.3800
07/30/04            SELL            (35,850)           $16.3800
08/31/04            BUY              12,100            $17.3600
08/31/04            SELL            (12,100)           $17.3600
09/09/04            SELL            (100,000)          $18.5000
09/09/04            SELL            (50,000)           $18.5000
09/09/04            SELL            (100,000)          $18.5000
09/09/04            SELL            (200,000)          $18.5000
09/09/04            SELL            (100,000)          $18.5000
09/09/04            SELL            (200,000)          $18.5000
09/09/04            SELL            (800,000)          $18.5012
09/09/04            SELL            (200,000)          $18.5103
09/09/04            SELL            (100,000)          $18.5000




                                   SIGNATURES

     After reasonable inquiry and to the best of our knowledge and belief, the
undersigned certify that the information set forth in this statement is true,
complete and correct.


Dated: September 13, 2004

                                        THIRD POINT MANAGEMENT
                                        COMPANY L.L.C.

                                        By: /s/ Daniel S. Loeb
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                                            Name:  Daniel S. Loeb
                                            Title: Managing Member



                                        /s/ Daniel S. Loeb
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                                        Daniel S. Loeb











               [SIGNATURE PAGE TO AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO SCHEDULE 13D
                                 WITH RESPECT TO
                                INTERCEPT, INC.]